SKRILLEX With Pillowfight 12.16.10 | Boulder Theatre Last night at the Fox Theatre in Boulder, Skrillex showed his fans exactly what creatures can lurk in the hard, dark reaches of dance music and broke the rules for a live DJ gig in surprisingly delightful ways…
Once the presents are opened, the food has been picked over and the fighting among relatives has subsided, Bar Curious will be there for you. On Christmas night, Buffalo Exchange has partnered with Beauty Bar to bring you Bar Curious, a queer-friendly dance party featuring veteran DJs Keoki and Jerry…
Though the sound of Wham’s “Last Christmas” may have you wishing it was 2011 already, there is hope. Tonight, Matt Morris — along with Jen Korte, John Common, Rob Drabkin and a handful of other smiling local faces — will be singing holiday songs at Casselman’s for the “Something in…
You may not have heard much about Selko, and there’s a good reason for that. With the exception of some occasional tweets and the placement of his ninja stickers around town, he’s kept a relatively low profile. Tomorrow night at Herman’s Hideaway (with Yo, Flaco!, the Dendrites, Gamerlife and Blazing…
Looks like Christmas has come early for John Kinsner. This afternoon, the Walnut Room’s former talent buyer, who moved to Los Angeles this past fall, accepted a position with AEG Live at its LA Live Campus as the new production manager for the Nokia Theatre…
Not a lot of holiday parties circle around events that only happen every 456 years, but tomorrow night at Meadowlark, Real is a Feeling is holding it down as your winter solstice pre-party headquarters. To honor the solstice — which is extra special because it also falls on the lunar…
Last night the first-ever Creep party at Beauty Bar — you may have read about it here on Backbeat — went down. Nightlife photographer Jonathan Shoup brings back these photos. See the full slideshow here: Creep at Beauty Bar…
Yet another great project featuring Suzi Bromfield, Girls Walk By is a guitar-pop band, yes, but in a Pixies kind of way. Three-part harmonies and surf guitar abound, but the darkness saturating the vocals and instrumentation is what gives the quartet an distinction beyond its psychadelic undertones…
In the world of rap and circumstance, there is room for pretty much everyone. Unreleased Tension, Jagwire’s latest, carves out the MC’s lane among the mediocre, if not the motivated. He raps over production that is more advanced than his flow, as is the case with “Shangri-La,” a track about…
Spoke In Wordz has completed work on the Get the Power comp he spoke about this past August. The platter — now titled Power of Wordz and slated for release on Friday, January 21 at Casselman’s — features a vibrant cast of characters from the local hip-hop scene, a veritable…
“Chillwave” is a buzzword used to describe a sound built on brezzy melodies with songs heavy on electronics. Even a short list of artists that have fallen under this umbrella, including bands like Small Black and Washed Out, reveals more diversity in approaches to songwriting than a genre title generally…
Arguably the best single night of the year for live music, New Year’s Eve can be an overwhelming thing to plan for. To help you narrow down your options, we’ve picked the ten best shows this year, plus a few extras we couldn’t ignore. Also, feel free to hype your…
The Winter Solstice is the holiday people celebrate when they don’t want to celebrate any of the major holidays. It was also a popular Viking tradition that included a number of badass-sounding celebrations like the Feast of the Dead and the lighting of Yule logs in honor of Thor…
Though Rob Halford still holds it down as the leader of Judas Priest, the enigmatic band leader has kept busy with several other music projects during his forty-plus years in music. With a vocal range that is unmatched, Halford has carried the crown as the living heavy-metal god through two…
Whatever the measure of success — whether it’s defined by artists making music on their own or having someone else doing their bidding — a music scene is only as interesting as, well, the music being made there, of course, and the people who are making it, naturally. As you’ll…
A Day to Remember and Bring Me the Horizon are co-headlining The Game Changers Tour, slated to stop at the Fillmore Auditorium on Sunday, March 27. We Came as Romans and Pierce the Veil are also on the bill. Tickets ($25/$30) go on sale this Saturday, December 18, at 10…
“I feel I’m a good conduit, you could say, for bringing new music to a crowd,” muses Mark Farina. “I get a lot of enjoyment from playing new music, even though vibes and artists have changed over the past twenty years. One of my initial things starting out was playing…
In September, Francois Safieddine bought the building at 1414 Market Street — which is home to his clubs Oak Tavern and 24K — for $1,525,000. At around the same time, he also bought the former home of Mori, the old Nisei lodge at 2015 Market, from the Nisei Veterans Heritage…
Ethan Converse and Sam Martin started Flashlights (due Friday, December 17, at the Larimer Lounge) messing around with synthesizers and software while living in Boulder. They say their early material was rough and not as evolved as they would have liked. Be that as it may, anyone who saw any…
How long has it been since the Darkness finally went away? The correct answer: not long enough. Don’t count your blessings yet, though. Steel Panther is filling the vacuum, doing to American glam metal what the Darkness did to British glam rock — namely, ass-fucking it. The group’s only saving…
Dirty Rotten Imbeciles started out as a speedy hardcore band in Houston in the early ’80s. The band was renowned for its short songs, its leftist politics and the frenzied passion of its playing. D.R.I.’s appropriately-titled, landmark 1987 album, Crossover, lived up to its name by introducing a sound that…
When Low formed in Duluth, Minnesota, in 1993, no one could have guessed it would become one of the most respected underground bands of the next two decades. In an era when most acts traded in sheer volume, Low focused instead on raw emotional honesty expressed with a quiet and…
